the standard for the top level is $home/.maildir or $home/Maildir (cyrus).
you can get away with only working with $MAILDIR/new if you don't
have a need for maildir-style folders (which start with a "." and get utf-7-
encoded).
there is disagreement about the format of the unique.file.name. the cyrus
maildir man page says this:
A new unique filename is created using one of two possible forms:
``time.MusecPpid.host'', or ``time.MusecPpid_unique.host''. ``time''
and ``usec'' is the current system time, obtained from gettimeofday(2).
``pid'' is the process number of the process that is delivering this
message to the maildir. ``host'' is the name of the machine where the
mail is being delivered.
their maildir files look like this
1136731697.M580106P15382V0000000000000303I0009030C_0.conchobor.berzerked.org,S=2872
(the S=2872 is the file size. i'm not sure why stat is so expensive on their
machine.)
but postfix gives you this:
1137764424.Vfe04I16e1M435392.dexter-peak.quanstro.net
and fetchmail gives you this
1125641448.1984_0.dexter-peak
i don't use djb's stuff, but i'm sure he disagrees with all of these formats.
;-)
i see the important part of the file format to be time "." unique-extension.
i wrote a set of programs for reading mail in maildirs (from, mcat, mimedesc,
e.g.). they get buy by not paying any attention to the file names.
- erik
John Barham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
|
| > Maildir uses the structure folder/{tmp,cur,new}/unique.file.name.
| > The files are required to be uniquely named, and there is a convention for
| > the intermediate directories. djb has a brief but detailed specification
| > under cr.yp.to somewhere, if you want to google for it.
|
| http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html
